SAN JOSE, CA – Global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will increase nearly three-fold over the next five years due to more Internet users, devices, and connections, says a new report from Cisco.
According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Complete Forecast for 2015 to 2020, global IP networks will support up to 10 billion new devices and connections, increasing from 16.3 billion in 2015 to 26.3 billion by 2020. There are projected to be 3.4 devices and connections per capita by 2020—up from 2.2 per capita in 2015.
Advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) are continuing to drive IP traffic and tangible growth in the market. Applications such as video surveillance, smart meters, digital health monitors and a host of other M2M services are creating new network requirements and incremental traffic increases. Globally, M2M connections are calculated to grow nearly three-fold from 4.9 billion in 2015 to 12.2 billion by 2020, representing nearly half (46%) of total connected devices. The connected health consumer segment will have the fastest growth (five-fold) of M2M connections from 2015 (144 million) to 2020 (729 million).The connected home segment will have the largest volume of M2M connections over the forecast period with 2.4 billion in 2015, growing to 5.8 billion by 2020—nearly half of all M2M connections, continues the report.
Video services and content continue to be the dominant leader compared with all other applications. Internet video will account for 79% of global Internet traffic by 2020, up from 63% in 2015. The world will reach three trillion Internet video minutes per month by 2020, which is five million years of video per month, or about one million video minutes every second. HD and Ultra HD Internet video will make up 82% of Internet video traffic by 2020, up from 53% in 2015.
Key Canadian findings from the report include:
– In Canada, IP traffic will grow two-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 18%;
– In 2020, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross Canada's IP networks every one hour;
– In Canada, Internet traffic will grow 2.7-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 22%;
– Canadian Internet traffic in 2020 will be equivalent to 53x the volume of the entire Canadian Internet in 2005;
– Canada's Fixed/Wi-Fi was 40% of total IP traffic in 2015, and will be 52% of total IP traffic in 2020.
– In Canada, IP video traffic will grow three-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 20%;
– In Canada, consumer IP video traffic will be 87% of consumer IP traffic in 2020, up from 82% in 2015;
– In Canada, 59 billion minutes (112,592 years) of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2020. That's 22,518 minutes of video streamed or downloaded every second;
– In Canada, Internet gaming traffic will be 5% of consumer Internet traffic in 2020, up from 2% in 2015;
– In Canada, mobile data traffic will grow six-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 42%.
